Factors influencing job preferences among undergraduates business students in Universiti Utara Malaysia

The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that final year undergraduates business students of Univesiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) consider important in selecting their first job after graduation. Salary and benefits, career development and job security have been chosen as the independent variab...

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Main Author: Rushda Adiba, Abdullah Sani
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
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Published: 2020
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spelling my-uum-etd.89382024-01-28T03:13:49Z Factors influencing job preferences among undergraduates business students in Universiti Utara Malaysia 2020 Rushda Adiba, Abdullah Sani Ab Hamid, Kamal School of Business Management School of Business Management HF5001-6182 Business The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that final year undergraduates business students of Univesiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) consider important in selecting their first job after graduation. Salary and benefits, career development and job security have been chosen as the independent variables for present study. To investigate the job preferences of business students, 234 final year undergraduate business students from UUM were surveyed. Data then were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22.0 using Reliability Analysis, Correlation Analysis and Multiple Regression. The result showed only career development and job security were significantly positive with job preferences while salary and benefits was not significantly influence to job preferences. Besides that, research findings indicated career development was the strongest factor influence to job preferences followed by job security. 2020 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/8938/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/8938/1/s824221_01.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/8938/2/s824221_02.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/8938/3/824221%20REFERENCES.docx text eng public other masters Universiti Utara Malaysia
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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advisor Ab Hamid, Kamal
topic HF5001-6182 Business
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Rushda Adiba, Abdullah Sani
Factors influencing job preferences among undergraduates business students in Universiti Utara Malaysia
description The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that final year undergraduates business students of Univesiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) consider important in selecting their first job after graduation. Salary and benefits, career development and job security have been chosen as the independent variables for present study. To investigate the job preferences of business students, 234 final year undergraduate business students from UUM were surveyed. Data then were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22.0 using Reliability Analysis, Correlation Analysis and Multiple Regression. The result showed only career development and job security were significantly positive with job preferences while salary and benefits was not significantly influence to job preferences. Besides that, research findings indicated career development was the strongest factor influence to job preferences followed by job security.
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title Factors influencing job preferences among undergraduates business students in Universiti Utara Malaysia
title_short Factors influencing job preferences among undergraduates business students in Universiti Utara Malaysia
title_full Factors influencing job preferences among undergraduates business students in Universiti Utara Malaysia
title_fullStr Factors influencing job preferences among undergraduates business students in Universiti Utara Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Factors influencing job preferences among undergraduates business students in Universiti Utara Malaysia
title_sort factors influencing job preferences among undergraduates business students in universiti utara malaysia
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url https://etd.uum.edu.my/8938/1/s824221_01.pdf
https://etd.uum.edu.my/8938/2/s824221_02.pdf
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